Australia skipper Pat Cummins has said that Travis Head is the vice-captain of the team and is a mature person, quite able to talk for himself and hence he doesn't need to defend his deputy after an on-field spat with Mohammed Siraj on Day 2 of the Adelaide Test. Most of the attention in the game was taken up by the war of words between Siraj and Head.

Head smashed a match-winning 140 from 141 deliveries in the pink ball Test as Australia bounced back from the humiliating loss at Perth to win by 10 wickets and level the five-match series one-all.

After Head was bowled out by Siraj, the two were seen exchanging a few words aggressively and Siraj even gave Head a fiery send-off, which became the highlight of the day's play.

"Travis Head is vice-captain of the team, so he's a big boy. He can talk for himself. As a general rule, you normally let the boys be themselves. If you ever need to step in to intervene as captain, I would, but as I said, for our group, I've never really felt like I've needed to do that," Cummins said at the post-match press conference.

"It's a big series so a lot is riding on it. The umpire stepped in pretty quickly and that was the end of it. To be honest, they can do whatever they want. I'm more worried about our boys. Like always, I thought our boys' behaviour was excellent this week like it seems to be every week," Cummins added.

After the spat, Head said at the end of the day's play that he had just said 'well bowled' to Siraj, which the bowler misconstrued. On the morning of Day 3, Siraj refuted all such claims, saying that Head never said 'well bowled', but instead abused him first.

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